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This oceanfront strip with its famous Fishing Pier became <br />known as Motel Row, not duplicated anywhere else. Within — <br />years of its incorporation into Sunny Isles Beach, the City <br />committed to its history and wanting to evolve a program of <br />public art, adopted its AIPP Ordinance and through some of the <br />most creative land development regulations in the State of <br />Florida began to see a renaissance of art and architecture. <br />Notable architects such as Robert Swerdlow, Carlos Ott, Kobi <br />Karp, Chad Oppenheim and Seiger-Suarez created one of the <br />most unique skylines in South Florida. In addition, the City is <br />now home to such notable public art contributed by each <br />development or in the City's own inventory including Seo, <br />Young-Deok, Muse, Valeria Yamamoto Sculptures, Rein <br />Treifeldt's Caterpillar's Dream Butterfly, David and Felix Fisher <br />sculpture, The Family, Blue Butterfly by Manolo Valdes, and <br />Pablo Atchugarry's Dreaming of the Future; Rising Horizons by <br />Rafael Barrios. <br />With the completion of the City's Cultural Master Plan prepared by <br />global consultants AEA ("CMP"), and the formation of the Public Arts <br />Advisory Committee, the City sees the opportunity to build on its <br />unique history and not only build its collection of art in public places <br />but to do creative place making all throughout the City and engage its <br />multi -cultural citizenry in forward -thinking and exciting ways. <br />The City's program began in 1997 with its Art in Public Places <br />Ordinance which requires the city (1 '/2 % of construction of new <br />governmental buildings) or private developers (1 % up to $500,000 of <br />construction costs of a work of art of equal value) to contribute to a public <br />art fund.' <br />1 Ordinance as amended is attached. <br />3 <br />